Big Tech Trying to Buy Election for Biden and Kamaliar
Posted by freedomforall 3 years, 6 months ago to Politics
A super PAC bankrolled by Silicon Valley moguls is preparing a massive TV advertising campaign to help boost Democratic candidate Joe Biden against President Donald Trump in the final days before the 2020 US election.
The $100-plus million blitz includes at least $22 million from Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, according to an exclusive report from Recode, a subdivision of Vox. Another Democratic megadonor involved is former Google and Alphabet CEO Eric Schmidt, currently advising the Pentagon on technology innovation.
Called Future Forward, the super PAC has filed federal paperwork on Tuesday disclosing that it has raised $66 million between September 1 and October 15. It has contracted for $106 million of TV ads between September 29 and November 3, according to media tracking firm Advertising Analytics. This makes it the largest Biden booster outside the Democrats’ campaign itself, already a fundraising juggernaut.
The massive haul is intended to fund last-minute TV ads to help Biden in key battleground states, relying on Moskovitz’s data-driven approach to most efficient advertising. Mark Zuckerberg’s former business partner, who left Facebook to launch a management software company called Asana in 2008, has reportedly calculated the optimal “cost-per-net-Democratic-vote” in key ad markets and is spending accordingly, Recode reported.
Moskovitz has also donated millions to the Voter Participation Center and Vote Tripling, pro-Democrat groups that work on voter turnout.
Recode also reported that Future Forward “has been recommended in private communications by the team of Reid Hoffman.” He is the LinkedIn co-founder and Democratic megadonor previously caught funding a disinformation campaign during the 2017 special Senate election in Alabama, in which a company called New Knowledge created a Twitter army of 'Russian bots' pretending to back the Republican candidate. It was unclear from the Recode story whether Hoffman had contributed any funding to Moskovitz’s super PAC.
Google’s Schmidt has backed the Democrats before, going so far as serving as an adviser to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and showing up on election night at her headquarters with a campaign “staff” badge. Moskovitz himself sank $20 million into Clinton’s campaign in 2016.
The $100-plus million blitz includes at least $22 million from Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, according to an exclusive report from Recode, a subdivision of Vox. Another Democratic megadonor involved is former Google and Alphabet CEO Eric Schmidt, currently advising the Pentagon on technology innovation.
Called Future Forward, the super PAC has filed federal paperwork on Tuesday disclosing that it has raised $66 million between September 1 and October 15. It has contracted for $106 million of TV ads between September 29 and November 3, according to media tracking firm Advertising Analytics. This makes it the largest Biden booster outside the Democrats’ campaign itself, already a fundraising juggernaut.
The massive haul is intended to fund last-minute TV ads to help Biden in key battleground states, relying on Moskovitz’s data-driven approach to most efficient advertising. Mark Zuckerberg’s former business partner, who left Facebook to launch a management software company called Asana in 2008, has reportedly calculated the optimal “cost-per-net-Democratic-vote” in key ad markets and is spending accordingly, Recode reported.
Moskovitz has also donated millions to the Voter Participation Center and Vote Tripling, pro-Democrat groups that work on voter turnout.
Recode also reported that Future Forward “has been recommended in private communications by the team of Reid Hoffman.” He is the LinkedIn co-founder and Democratic megadonor previously caught funding a disinformation campaign during the 2017 special Senate election in Alabama, in which a company called New Knowledge created a Twitter army of 'Russian bots' pretending to back the Republican candidate. It was unclear from the Recode story whether Hoffman had contributed any funding to Moskovitz’s super PAC.
Google’s Schmidt has backed the Democrats before, going so far as serving as an adviser to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and showing up on election night at her headquarters with a campaign “staff” badge. Moskovitz himself sank $20 million into Clinton’s campaign in 2016.
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- 1Posted by $ 25n56il4 3 years, 6 months agoI am praying all their money isn't going to help them win. I don't want anyone to be able to buy an election. It is being done, but I don't like it.| Mark as read | Best of... | Permalink
